league of legends

At an event in San Jose this weekend, TechCrunch went full esports. The confab, the Intel Extreme Master digital tournament, saw professional players from around the world duke it out in League of Legends and Starcraft 2, two of the most popular video games around.
The event was more than just a tournament, however, with booths, gaming stations, and an oddly flexible laptop also hanging… Read More

A few weeks back I drove down to the San Mateo headquarters of Super Evil Megacorp, the developer behind Vainglory, one of the prominent MOBAs built specifically for tablets (and, as we discovered at September’s iPhone event, the iPhone 6). Read More

Released earlier this month, TechCrunch Disrupt alum Hammer & Chisel’s Fates Forever is a well-executed attempt to bring the MOBA to tablets. It doesn’t bring every feature in League of Legends to your iPad, but as you play you realize that most of what’s missing is fat trimmed to make for a better handheld experience. Read More

Google might be paying a billion dollars for an audience that’s mostly interested in watching people play a single game.
If you take a look at the most-viewed games on Twitch, there’s a clear and definite frontrunner. League of Legends, a massively popular online multiplayer game, had 27 million daily players as of January. Read More

Among the youngs, competitive gaming, often referred to as esports, is growing at a rapid pace. The world’s most popular video game, League of Legends, this week reported the viewership figures for its recent Season 3 finals event that sold out the Staples Center in Los Angeles: 32 million tuned in around the world, with peak concurrents spiking as high as 8.5 million.
For comparison… Read More

League of Legends is the most-played, multi-player PC game in the world, with gamers logging nearly 1.3 billion hours of play time. The Riot Games title has more hours logged than World of Warcraft and Minecraft. Read More